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SANDS v. STARKE COUNTY BD. OF COM'RS

No. S 80-314.

530 F.Supp. 712 (1982)

Helen SANDS, Plaintiff, v. STARKE COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS, Defendant.

United States District Court, N. D. Indiana, South Bend Division.

January 25, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Patrick Smith, LaPorte, Ind., for plaintiff.

Thomas W. Ward, Knox, Ind., for defendant.

MEMORANDUM

SHARP, Chief Judge.

Plaintiff claims that she was discharged by defendants, Board of Commissioners of Starke County, Indiana solely because of her political activity in the fall of 1978 in supporting and actively campaigning for Alvin Werner, a then Democrat Commissioner who was defeated in the fall election. The plaintiff bases her claim on two Supreme Court decisions, Elrod v. Burns,

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